this PC q28 from lean Lee was actually
sent to me months ago and it accidentally got buried under a pile of
cases with its Factory tuning and data center DNA an Intel 730 series SSD is an
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when I decided that I wanted to game more on my TV and I realized that my PC
Q7 wouldn't fit the kind of graphics card I wanted for the best possible
experience the pcq 28 is quite a bit
larger than my older case but is still small enough to fit in the cabinet under
my TV and it comes with some updated features that make it both very easy to
build in and very functional let's start with the outside if you've ever seen a
Le and Lee case before then I don't need to tell you that the fit and finish of
their all aluminum cases is exceptional and this one is no exception to the
exceptional makes it unexceptional I guess no it's good though the brushed
aluminum finish is beautiful and every joint lines up perfectly at the front
you can install a 5 and a/4 inch drive and I did I happen to own One Blu-Ray a
copy of Disney's Enchanted so if I ever feel like watching that I want to make
sure that I'm prepared true freaking story not even joking about that and
other than that on the front it's just a little lean Le logo and the power button
on the right hand side we find the front iio two USB 3.0 ports a headphone jack
and a microphone Jack and then on the bottom we find a filtered intake right
there at the front for the front 140 mm
fan that is going to bring fresh air to the inside of the system on the left
hand side we find not a whole lot of anything and on the top we find a 120 mm
exhaust at the back well two expansion
slots so it supports either ITX or DTX and then power supply so that's pretty
much it opening up the side panel was refreshingly simple rather than six tiny
little counter sunk screws lean Lee is doing a sliding system with one screw
and then little plastic latches for the rest of them much better much less
tedious to open up and much less likely uh to cause you to lose something now
the first thing I'd like to say before we get inside is that uh I am using a
personal build to Showcase this chassis so some of the hardware choices might
seem a little bit odd trust me I know
all right so now that it's opened up the first thing I want to show you is actually something that's not in there
anymore and that is this right here these two thumb screws down here on the
bottom we're holding in this handy dandy bracket that accepts up to 2 2 and 1/2
in or 2 3 and 1/2 in drives I don't really need internal drives because I'm
using a Nas with ice scuzzy to install my games so I went ahead and took this
piece out in order to give my graphics card a little bit more breathing room
here at the bottom next up is the top hard drive cage which I also removed to
give that front 140 mm fan as much room
to work as I could this one accepts Four
3 and 1/2 in drives with a 2 and 1/2 in Drive hanging from the bottom so that's
a total of up to seven mix and match internal drives in this this tiny little
case now Cable Management won't be super tidy if you do in decide to install all
that stuff so make sure that your expectations are reasonable but the good
news is that it doesn't have a windowed side panel so no one will ever see it
you can see what I did is I removed that so that does give me quite a bit more
cable management room although I don't have anywhere to actually rote those
cables to your power supply can be up to 170 mm in length but I'd recommend a
little bit shorter if you're planning to use that drive cage or if you're
planning to use a modular power supply and also recommend picking up a short
cable kit Silverstone has some great stuff for better Cable Management I was
on a budget when I first built this media PC so I'm actually using an antech
true power new 550 W power supply that I
actually hacked all the cables short on and then soldered them back together
reinsulated and resleeved them uh it does improve cable management but uh
also makes the extra six pin PCI Express cable that I had to attach for my better
graphics card with its long wire on it look a little bit out of place and
really guys that's not something that I would recommend doing it's just
something that I did for this particular uh build uh speaking of the graphics
card and the connector for it I've got an open airflow GTX 660 Ti that doesn't
quite seem to be throttling in this system but runs at 100° underload in Far
Cry 3 for that reason I would prefer a
rear exhaust card but this one I was able to trade Luke's friend something
for so the price was right um there is lots of room in the case to install
something as big as a GTX 780ti in there but based on how hot this one's running
even though it is an open airflow design I don't think that that's something that
I'm going to do without modding another intake or something because that front
intake does have a 140 mm fan behind it
but the vent is quite small and uh and
it's it's definitely going to need more air flow I mean one option would be to
take like a slim fan or even open up the bottom of the case here to get some
better air flow and just throw like a like a dust filter or something on there
and then the other thing to consider too guys is that your media cabinet is going
to get quite hot especially running games with something like this inside of
it so um but even now I'm going to have to get like a 120 mm hole saw cut some
holes and then get some get some air flow going on in there as well if we
take out the four thumb screws at the back we can slide the power supply back
which allows us to see the Gigabyte Z87 ITX motherboard that I've got installed
in here the CPU in there there's a coree i 5 4570 nonk it runs at about 70° in my
gaming load scenario in Far Cry 3 and 75° Max running Prime 95 small fft with
the random silent X cooler that I have on there I'm actually happy with those
results I turned the fan around so that it feeds directly into the power supply
for exhaust but I would definitely recommend using a thermal probe to
ensure that your motherboard vrm temps are still okay before doing something
like that in your own system normally your motherboard should want to benefit
from the downdraft air flow that's coming from your CPU fan the front
connectors in this system I don't know if you'll be able to see this very clearly but that USB 3 one in particular
is pretty taut the the other ones were okay but there's more strain on that
usb3 connector than I would have liked this is an unusual spot on this
motherboard for the front header for USB 3 um and the front ports do work but
another inch would have made a really big difference with the power supply
popped out you can also see my my super ghetto cable cutting job here
and how short the cables are on this power supply again I don't really recommend doing that so if we take off
the other side panel you can see that behind the motherboard tray we find a
very limited amount of space for cable management and we also find uh my boot
drive it's a 1.8 in 64 gig SSD from
Kingston uh this freed up some space for me in the front for better air flow
which I desperately need given that you saw my GPU temperatures and since I
don't really need any storage in this machine 64 gigs is lot for my OS and
like the four internet browsers that I need to have running at all times so in
conclusion overall I really like this case I'm happy with it but I went in
knowing that I was trading proper ventilation for physical Beauty don't
expect to fill the PC q28 up with everything that you can physically pack
inside and have it function seven drives
plus like a graphics card and and it should be noted that if you do install
drives on this bottom sled here you're not going to be able to install a double
slot graphics card so even five drives plus that graphics card it's just not
enough ventilation and you would have to make some alterations to make that
happen so with that said I've definitely still got some work to do on this build
but I don't really think it's fair to review the case after I've modded it so
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